The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Switzerland achieves superior internet speeds (25 Gbit) and competitive pricing by treating fiber infrastructure as a shared, neutral asset regulated by the government, allowing multiple service providers to compete over the same network. In contrast, the U.S. and Germany permit competing companies to build separate parallel infrastructure, creating wasteful "overbuild," monopolies, and higher costs—demonstrating that the solution to natural monopolies like telecommunications lies in regulated shared infrastructure rather than unregulated market competition.